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This is a venture capital firm genealogy showing VC firms, where their founders worked prior, and some of their more interesting investments.

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Type a firm, an investment or a founder name in the box and click on the drop-down entry.

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Silicon Valley = Green

New York = Blue

Boston = Red

Other = Orange

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To contribute a new firm, click on the '+', enter the data and hit 'Submit'. To edit a firm, click on the firm's name, edit, hit 'Submit.' Edits will show up immediately locally, but they need to be approved before showing up for everyone. By adding or editing you're agreeing that your adds/edits are copylefted under the Creative Commons by-sa license, except I can only give you attribution if you put your name in the Comments field. Attribution will be given on this help page. If you don't tell me who you are, you're agreeing to the Creative Commons sa license.

Thanks

Thanks to Josh Reich, Chris Wiggins and Sam Ewen, who helped make this less ugly and more informative. All remaining ugliness and uniformativeness is completely my fault for not taking all of their advice. I'm using jQuery, jQueryUI, and a modified d3.